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You can find them on my site. Go to the bottom of the LEGO(tm) page and you will find two links. One sources from voyager/jeffK and the other sources from Xoom. Content should be identical. Problems to me via email please, I am about to submerge in (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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(...) This was used as a trailer hitch conection during the Samsonite era. You connect one end to the "car" and one end to the "trailer" element. I think it was also used on the early legoland train models that rolled on the blue track with red 2X2 (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Train Auction Update
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Nancy & Eric's Train Auction Update 4558 Metroliner - $350 DBulkley 4564 Freight Rail Runner - $250 SNealons 4551 "Crocodile" Locomotive - $225 SNealons 4536 Blue Hopper Car - $60 GLouie 4546 Road 'N' Rail Vehicle - $20 DBulkley Pair of monorail (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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The subject says it all. Since my Retrostation Auction is almost over, the 4565 Freight and Crane Railway (1 of them) is the next one in line to be auctioned. I have decided to do it by parts (ie - locomotive, scale, crane 1, etc...), but I think (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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as formerly mentioned, i recently got set #375 (1960s Samsonite brick set) at a yard sale for $1. not too special -- it's just a "universal" style set -- but it has a lot of clear bricks and old-style windows and doors and wheels and whatnot, which (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) don't forget that the women got to wear skirts made of ~60-degree sloping bricks! also, i loved the reversible hair pieces. sideburns? :) (...) i don't remember jointed-arm kids -- my only jointed-arm-figure set i can recall was homemaker (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Aaahhhhh, shutup and deal with it. <duck> Seriously, you and I BOTH know if you truly want something on EBay, you WILL have to rearrange your life around the end time. I have had to wake up at 3am to make sure I got something I wanted. Sucks, but I (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Mindstorms photo critique wanted
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Hi, I've got some photos of my first 'bot, but I'm not convinced they look good enough or are useful enough to integrate into my website. Can someone out there stop by and look at the five sub-20k jpgs under: (URL) let me know what you think? Also, (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
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OK, I just got a Mindstorms this yesterday and I've been surfing the various web pages about it (Lots of good info!) and I came across something odd. The specs for the microprocessor say it has 8 bit A/D's (Analog to digital converters), but the raw (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) want (...) Rob, no offense but I really don't want to hear about how eBay works. I know how it works. I know they can run their auctions any way they want, and I know that if I want to win at all costs, I have to be willing to rearrange my (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Hi All, I have been working on controlling LEGO trains thru the Decta Control Lab and I got a tip to pulse the power to the rails to better control the trains speed. There are 8 power settings via the ctrl lab and there are really only 2 or 3 (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi All, I have been working on controlling LEGO trains thru the Decta Control Lab and I got a tip to pulse the power to the rails to better control the trains speed. There are 8 power settings via the ctrl lab and there are really only 2 or 3 (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.trains)
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AFAIK, "maxifig" is the unofficial name for the "big people" of the 70's (the ones that you mentioned below), which are also called as "bendyarm"s. I haven't hear any approved term for technic figures, but I prefer calling them "technifigs"..:-D (...) (27 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Greetings: This is an update for an auction of thousands of bricks and other elements. This announcement and auction updates will go to rec.toys.lego and lugnet.market.auction in addition to the bidders via email. I am offering the elements listed (...) (27 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Nope. See below. I call 'em Technic Guys. (Hopefully someday "Technic People" will become more appropriate. See other thread....) (...) THOSE were maxifigs. (27 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | [eBay] Older Space, Pirate, and Castle sets on eBay
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I've posted some older, small sets on eBay, all with no reserve and $1 opening bids. All sets include instructions, most are complete, and none have boxes. Please follow the bottom link in my .sig to get to a list of links for them. Space 1478 (...) (27 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) All I can suggest is to realize that this is the way eBay works, and if you want to win a set, the best way is to snipe. It's snipe or be sniped when the item is highly sought after. I've found that it's often best to post a low bid early and (...) (27 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) You are right the curved arrows are a little strange. (...) I have seen this done on several Ldraw made instructions, but I reallynever build this way. (...) What do you mean by "authentic" ? Paulo (27 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Here's a topic or two.. I was just thinking... If you call the 'Town' scale people minifigs, what do you call the Technic scale people? - Maxifigs?? Anybody else remember the really _BIG_ people? pre-minifigs? they had arms like Technic, but were (...) (27 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Which Shell set this week?
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In article <F1K3vs.72v@lugnet.com>, richard.dee@nospam.virgin.net says... (...) Actually _In_ Amersham-on-the-Hill in Woodside Road. I was in there just tonight, got another Ferrarri (they still had a couple left). They have both the premium sets (...) (27 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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